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Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 and its near-nucleus environment from a stellar occultation

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Pith's one-line read The first stellar occultation by Centaur 29P measures a ~54 km nucleus and finds a dust jet.

desk verdict First occultation of 29P is a real and useful measurement, but the radius and the claimed dust jet need reconciliation before the full claims hold. read the letter →

arxiv 2411.16358 v1 pith:UZSFOWJI submitted 2024-11-25 astro-ph.EP

C. L. Pereira , F. Braga-Ribas , B. Sicardy , B. E. Morgado , J. L. Ortiz , M. Assafin , R. Miles , J. Desmars
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J. I. B. Camargo G. Benedetti-Rossi M. Kretlow R. Vieira-Martins
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A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

The paper reports the first stellar occultation ever observed by the Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, catching the comet's solid nucleus directly as it passed in front of a background star. The single chord lasted about 3.65 seconds, corresponding to a length of roughly 54 km and a lower limit on the nucleus radius of $27.0 \pm 0.7$ km. The same event yields an astrometric position with sub-milliarcsecond accuracy, a major improvement over coma-dominated ground-based astrometry, and reveals a gradual dimming at ingress that the authors interpret as a localized dust cloud or jet extending at least 23 km above the surface with optical depth $\tau \sim 0.18$. Around the nucleus, the data place strict upper limits on any additional material and flag two marginal, symmetrically placed features near 1,700 km. This matters because 29P is an active Centaur in the dynamical gateway to the Jupiter-family comets, and direct measurements of its nucleus and near-nucleus environment constrain both its physical size and the mass-loss processes shaping its evolution.

What carries the argument

The central objects are the single-chord occultation light curve and the synthetic model used to interpret it. The recorded frames are aligned, median-stacked in the comet's rest frame to build a coma image, and that stacked coma is subtracted from each frame before differential aperture photometry is performed. Ingress and egress instants are found by fitting synthetic light curves that convolve a sharp-edge box with Fresnel diffraction, the apparent stellar diameter, the observing wavelength, and the 0.5 s exposure time, using a $\chi^2$ grid search. The gradual ingress dimming is then fit by adding a semi-transparent box of variable opacity to the synthetic model, with the optical depth computed after correcting for Airy diffraction. Astrometric positions come from fitting circular limbs of fixed equivalent radius to the single chord, producing the two (north and south) center solutions. Detection limits for surrounding material use the apparent equivalent width transform $E'(i) = [1-\varphi(i)]\Delta r(i)$, converting the normalized flux at each frame into the width of an opaque strip that would block the same light.

What would settle it

A second occultation chord crossing a different part of the nucleus, or a simultaneous observation from a second site, would distinguish the two geometries: if the gradual dimming appears only on chords crossing a particular limb region it is topography, whereas if it appears at the same projected distance from the nucleus on other chords it is a dust jet. Re-observing the same limb at the 57.7-day rotation phase with high-cadence photometry or imaging would also settle whether the feature is stable.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On 5 December 2022, a 4.1-metre telescope in Chile recorded the first stellar occultation by 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1. After removing coma contamination frame by frame, the normalized light curve shows a solid-body occultation lasting about 3.65 seconds, corresponding to a chord of $54.2 \pm 1.3$ km and a lower-limit radius of $27.0 \pm 0.7$ km. Fitting circular limbs of the previously estimated equivalent radius ($32.3$ km) to this single chord yields two possible nucleus-center solutions, north and south, whose geocentric astrometric positions differ by only about 6 mas and carry uncertainties of about 0.5–0.6 mas. The light curve also shows a gradual flux drop during ingress only, which the authors model as a semi-transparent dust screen with optical depth $\tau = 0.18 \pm 0.02$ extending at least 23.4 km above the limb; they argue that a topographic limb irregularity is unlikely because the chord is nearly diametrical and the star nearly point-like. Over a radial range of about 22,700 km in the sky plane, the data set $3\sigma$ upper limits on apparent equivalent width ($\sim 2.3$ km) and apparent opacity ($\sim 0.3$), and they reveal two marginal, roughly symmetric flux dips near 1,700 km from the nucleus whose individual significance (3–3.9$\sigma$) the authors describe as too low to claim independently but whose symmetry they find intriguing.

Load-bearing premise

The interpretation of the gradual ingress dimming as dust rather than topography rests on a probability estimate, because with only one chord the same light curve could in principle be produced by an irregular limb; the paper dismisses the topographic option as very unlikely rather than ruling it out by measurement.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The roughly 54 km chord gives the first direct solid-body size constraint for 29P's nucleus, a lower-limit radius of $27.0 \pm 0.7$ km that is consistent with the 60–65 km equivalent diameters inferred from thermal modeling.
  • The sub-milliarcsecond astrometric position, with its two north/south solutions, will refine the comet's orbit and make future occultation predictions accurate enough to plan multi-chord campaigns that can map the nucleus shape.
  • The ingress-only dimming constitutes a direct detection of a localized near-nucleus dust cloud or jet with optical depth about 0.18 extending at least 23 km above the surface, tying the comet's outburst activity to measurable mass loss.
  • The absence of any detectable opaque structure wider than roughly 2.3 km (or semi-transparent structure with opacity above about 0.3) out to about 22,700 km places quantitative limits on rings or debris envelopes around this active Centaur.
  • The two marginal, symmetrically placed flux dips near 1,700 km, if confirmed by future events, would put material close to the estimated co-rotational radius and suggest temporary orbital capture of ejected dust.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the ingress dust jet is a persistent active region rather than a transient outburst remnant, future occultations and high-resolution infrared imaging at the same 57.7-day rotation phase should see it recur at the same limb location, offering a direct test of the authors' retrograde-spin interpretation.
  • The single-chord north/south ambiguity could be resolved by combining this event with the multi-chord detections reported later in the same season, yielding a full apparent ellipse and a single unambiguous astrometric position.
  • The symmetric 1,700-km features sit near the estimated co-rotational radius, hinting that grains ejected in the recent outbursts may be temporarily trapped; a targeted search of the later multi-chord light curves at 25-km binning could test this without new observations.
  • The coma-subtraction and detrending pipeline demonstrated here makes active Centaurs far more accessible to occultation campaigns, so similar ingress-dimming searches could become a standard probe of jets and near-nucleus dust on other outbursting small bodies.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper reports the first stellar occultation observed for Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, obtained with the SOAR telescope on 2022 December 5. A single positive chord is detected. A sharp-edge box fit gives ingress and egress times, an occultation duration of 3.65±0.09 s, a chord length of 54.2±1.3 km, and a lower-limit radius of 27.0±0.7 km. Two possible circular fits to the chord, using the literature equivalent radius, yield north and south astrometric positions with sub-milliarcsecond formal errors. The gradual dimming seen only at ingress is modeled as a semi-transparent dust screen with optical depth τ=0.18±0.02 and a minimum height of about 23 km. Upper limits on apparent equivalent width and apparent opacity are derived, and two marginal features near 1,700 km from the nucleus are discussed. The paper also places the result in the context of 29P's activity and the JFC Gateway region.

Significance. The first occultation by 29P is a valuable observational result: it provides an independent size lower limit, a much improved astrometric position for a body whose coma makes classical astrometry difficult, and quantitative upper limits on circum-nuclear material. The coma-subtraction and detrending methodology is carefully described, and the use of external, independent estimates for the rotation/density comparison is explicit. However, the headline dust-jet detection and the quoted radius lower limit are tied to a model choice that is not tested against the main alternative interpretation, so the physical conclusions require additional work before they can be regarded as established.

major comments (4)
  1. [Abstract and Section 5] The abstract and Section 3 report a solid-body duration of 3.65±0.05 s (abstract) or 3.65±0.09 s (Section 3) and a chord of 54.2±1.3 km, giving a lower-limit radius of 27.0±0.7 km. Section 5 states that the step-wise screen fit gives a nucleus chord of about 51.7 km. If the step-wise model is adopted, the implied lower-limit radius is about 25.9 km, which differs from the quoted 27.0±0.7 km by more than the stated uncertainty. The paper must either reconcile these two values or clearly state which model supplies the nominal radius lower limit in the abstract.
  2. [Section 5] The gradual ingress dimming is attributed to a semi-transparent dust screen, while the alternative of a topographic limb irregularity is dismissed because 'the probability of a grazing event is very low given the chord length.' No probability is computed, and no alternative limb model is fitted. With a single chord, a sloped or non-circular limb crossing over about 23 km can produce the same light curve as an absorbing screen in front of a circular limb, so the two geometries are degenerate. To support the dust interpretation, the authors should fit explicit limb-slope or topographic-step models to the same light curve and compare their quality with the screen model.
  3. [Section 5] The step-wise screen model introduces additional free parameters (screen opacity, screen width, and screen placement relative to the body) compared with the two-parameter box model of Section 3, but no Δχ², AIC, BIC, or other model-comparison statistic is reported. The statement that the best model was selected by χ² statistics is insufficient to establish that the extra complexity is justified. The reported τ=0.18±0.02 and the associated 23 km height therefore rest on an unvalidated model choice; a quantitative comparison, e.g., a likelihood-ratio or information-criterion test, is needed.
  4. [Section 6] The features near 1,723 km are 3σ and 3.6σ excursions in a data set of 2,988 points, for which the paper itself notes that about 9 points beyond 3σ and about 1 beyond 3.5σ are expected by chance. The authors acknowledge this and then appeal to the 'symmetrical location' as intriguing. If this symmetry is to be used as evidence, it needs a quantitative test, such as the probability of finding two outliers at comparable distances on opposite sides of the body; otherwise the features should be presented strictly as upper limits and not as tentative detections.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract gives the solid-body duration as 3.65±0.05 s, while Section 3 reports 3.65±0.09 s for the same quantity; these values should be reconciled.
  2. [Introduction and Section 5] The optical depth of the near-nucleus feature is written as τ′ in the Introduction but as τ in Section 5; please use a consistent notation.
  3. [Section 6] In the sentence 'a semi-transparent structure with a width of W⊥ ∼ 7.4 km ... and with an apparent opacity p′0.3', the opacity value appears to be missing an equality or approximate sign; it should read p′ ∼ 0.3.
  4. [Section 6] The sentence 'the features have an average width of W⊥ = 29.4 ± 2.2 km and optical depth τ = 0.11 ± 0.03 (resp. W⊥ = 28.0 ± 5.0 km and optical depth τ = 0.13 ± 0.06)' is grammatically awkward; please rephrase for clarity.
  5. [Section 4, Table 1] The table title says 'Astrometric uncertainty (mas)' but the listed values are split into RA and Dec uncertainties with slightly different values; please clarify whether these are 1σ formal errors from the circular fit and how they propagate from the assumed radius.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: central results are forward-model fits to the observed light curve with independent external inputs.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained. The central solid-body chord (54.2 ± 1.3 km) and lower-limit radius (27.0 ± 0.7 km) come from a two-parameter grid-search fit of a sharp-edge box convolved with Fresnel diffraction, stellar diameter, and exposure time to the observed light curve (§3). The fitted parameters are event times, i.e. outputs of the fit, not inputs that predetermine the geometric result. The gradual-ingress feature is fitted with a step-wise semi-transparent screen (adding an opacity parameter), and the paper explicitly labels it as an interpretation ('The fitted semi-transparent box can be interpreted as a dust accumulation...'); it also presents the competing topographic interpretation and rejects it by a probability argument, which is a model-selection concern rather than circularity. The astrometric center solutions in §4 use an external, independent Spitzer equivalent radius from [12], not the paper's own derived radius, and the two are not conflated. The co-rotational comparison in §6 is explicitly speculative and uses an independent rotation period [37] and Chiron density [35]. The paper's admitted limitation that the detrending 'excludes diffuse and broader structures' affects sensitivity but does not reduce any equation to its inputs. No equation reproduces its assumptions by construction, and no load-bearing claim is justified only by same-author citations.

Assumptions & free parameters 8 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central measurement uses standard occultation modelling and an external radius estimate for the chord-to-circle fit. The only new interpretive element is the step-wise dust-screen model for the ingress dimming. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (8)
  • Ingress time (simple box model) = 08:11:23.00 ± 0.06 UTC
    Fitted to the light curve with a synthetic box model; sets the start of the occultation.
  • Egress time (simple box model) = 08:11:26.64 ± 0.07 UTC
    Fitted to the light curve; sets the end of the occultation.
  • Semi-transparent screen optical depth = 0.18 ± 0.02
    Fitted in the step-wise model; used to infer a dust cloud or jet before the opaque nucleus.
  • Semi-transparent screen width above limb = 23.4 km
    Fitted extent of the gradual ingress dimming; interpreted as the height of a dust layer.
  • Circle center offset, south solution (fc, gc) = fc = -6.8 ± 0.7 km, gc = -71.6 ± 1.1 km
    Fitted center of a circle of radius 32.3 km that passes through the single chord.
  • Circle center offset, north solution (fc, gc) = fc = -4.4 ± 0.7 km, gc = -38.7 ± 1.1 km
    Alternative center solution on the opposite side of the chord.
  • 25-km bin ingress feature (distance, width, tau) = 1,352.3 ± 1.0 km, 29.4 ± 2.2 km, 0.11 ± 0.03
    Fitted square-box model to the resampled light curve; a marginal detection.
  • 25-km bin egress feature (distance, width, tau) = 1,796.8 ± 2.2 km, 28.0 ± 5.0 km, 0.13 ± 0.06
    Fitted square-box model to the resampled light curve; a marginal detection.
assumptions (7)
  • domain assumption The occulter is assumed to be circular with equivalent radius 32.3 km for the chord-to-center fit.
    Used in Section 4 to derive the two possible astrometric positions; radius taken from Schambeau et al. [12].
  • ad hoc to paper The gradual ingress flux drop is caused by a sharp-edged semi-transparent screen (dust), not a topographic limb irregularity.
    Section 5 models the feature as a step-wise screen; the topographic alternative is dismissed by probability, not measurement.
  • domain assumption The target star is single and point-like (Gaia DR3 RUWE = 1.027).
    Stated in Section 2; needed for the point-source diffraction model.
  • domain assumption The Savitzky-Golay detrending (135 s window) removes only slow systematics and preserves the occultation and near-nucleus features.
    Section 3 acknowledges the method intentionally excludes diffuse and broader structures, which could remove real extended coma.
  • standard math The object's apparent trajectory is a straight line across the field during the observations.
    Used for frame alignment and the first-degree polynomial fit in Section 3.
  • domain assumption For the co-rotational radius, the rotation period (57.7 d) and density (1119 kg m^-3) from the literature are applicable to 29P.
    Used in Section 6 to compare the 1,700 km features with the co-rotational region; these values are estimates from other objects or outburst periodicity.
  • standard math Fresnel and Airy diffraction models describe the light curve for the solid body and dust particles respectively.
    Used to build synthetic light curves in Sections 3 and 5; standard physical optics for occultations.

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abstract

Comets offer valuable insights into the early Solar System's conditions and processes. Stellar occultations enables detailed study of cometary nuclei typically hidden by their coma. Observing the star's light passing through the coma helps infer dust's optical depth near the nucleus and determine dust opacity detection limits. 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, a Centaur with a diameter of approximately 60 km, lies in a region transitioning from Centaurs to Jupiter-Family comets. Our study presents the first-ever observed occultation by 29P, allowing in the future a more refined orbit and thus better predictions for other occultations. The light curve reveals a solid-body detection lasting $3.65\pm0.05$ seconds, corresponding to a chord length of approximately 54 km. This provides a lower limit for the object's radius, measured at $27.0\pm0.7$ km. We identified features on both sides of the main-body occultation around 1,700 km from the nucleus in the sky plane for which upper limits on apparent opacity and equivalent width were determined. Gradual dimming within 23 km of the nucleus during ingress only is interpreted as a localised dust cloud/jet above the surface, with an optical depth of approximately $\tau \sim 0.18$.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Prediction map with the shadow path considering the estimated radius (blue continuous lines). The black dots are separated by 60 seconds from each other. The dashed red line limits the 1σ uncertainty in the path. The arrow indicates the shadow direction of movement. The first version of this prediction was published on the Lucky Star web page. Note that the occultation occurred in twilight at SOAR. This complication… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Elimination of the contamination from the cometary coma. First frame of the data set before (a) and after (b) the coma removal process. The frames c and d are in the central instant for the occultation, before and after the coma removal process, respectively. The red circle indicates the target star separated from the occulting body (magenta region). The cyan regions show the target star plus occulting body flux. Th… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Light curves obtained from the aperture photometry. a) light curve obtained from images before the cometary coma is removed. b) Un-detrended light curve (black dots) obtained from differential photometry in the frames corrected from cometary coma plotted over the resampled light curve obtained with the Savitzky-Golay (SG) digital filter (red). c) Normalised light curve after the detrending process. is 0.035 seconds … view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Modelled light curve (red) that best fits the observed data (black). The cyan curve represents the square-well model. Note the gradual drop in flux in the ingress region, explained in Section 5. 4. Event geometry Each chord extremity represents the intersection between…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Two circles fitted to the SOAR chords showing the possible solutions for the 29P centre at event epoch. The south (resp. north) solution is in purple (resp. black), with the 1σ uncertainty in light purple (resp. grey) for the centre and the circular limb. south) side o…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Modelled light curve (red) that best fits the observed data (black). The cyan curve represents the step-wise model for the semi-transparent screen blocking the stellar flux (segment A to B) right before the occultation by the nucleus (B to C). This modelling is analogo…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Apparent equivalent width as a function of the radial distance for the regions prior (top panel) and post (bottom panel) closest approach, covering a total of 7,000 km in the sky plane for better visualization. The grey horizontal arrows indicate the time evolution. Th…

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